Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is such an amazing place to see and look, you can either go with a group to tour around it , with this you get given just so much amazing information, or else you can go by yourself, where you can have an audio guide and also given a map so then you know where you are going and what you are looking at .

When i had went, with a tour group it was a day, where there had just happened to be like 4 seasons in one day


The History of Sachsenhausen camp is interesting


 in 1933 and until 1934 was known as Oranienburg Concentration Camp which was used by the SA troops, but was more into the town than where the Sachsenhausen camp now stands.

in the summer of 1936 the camp was built, it at first was a prison labour camp, became the first camp to be established after the appointment of reichfuhrer SS Henrich Himmler . It was also used as a model camp, used for training.
More than 200,000 people were imprisoned at this camp between 1936 and 1945 . The first prisoners here were political ones, and later Jewish prisoners and many others were sent to this camp as more countries became occupied.

the camp after liberation in 1945 was then used as a Soviet Special Camp.  in 1993 it became open to the public with a museum which located in where the kitchen and mess is.

Information Centre, was once the Armoury 

A scale area map of camp and the surrounding area 

The triangle is the Camp 

SS training barracks, now used as the police academy 

Looking down Camp Street 

Kommadant House 

This clock is time stamped with the exact time the camp was liberated 

where the guards went for drinks and entertainment 

entrance to the camp